Gamper simultaneously launched a campaign to recruit more club members, and by , the club had more than 20,, who helped finance a new stadium. The club then moved to the new Les Cortes , which they inaugurated the same year.

As a reprisal, the ground was closed for six months and Gamper was forced to relinquish the presidency of the club. To kick off the match, local journalist and pilot Josep Canudas dropped the ball onto the pitch from his aeroplane.

A year after winning the championship, on 30 July , Gamper committed suicide after a period of depression brought on by personal and financial problems.

Attendance at matches dropped as the citizens of Barcelona were occupied with discussing political matters. A month after the Spanish Civil War began in , several players from Barcelona enlisted in the ranks of those who fought against the military uprising, along with players from Athletic Bilbao.

The tour led to the financial security of the club, but also resulted in half of the team seeking asylum in Mexico and France, making it harder for the remaining team to contest for trophies.

All signs of regional nationalism, including language, flag and other signs of separatism were banned throughout Spain. The Catalan flag was banned and the club were prohibited from using non-Spanish names.

The first match at Les Corts was won by Barcelona 3—0. Real Madrid comfortably won the second leg, beating Barcelona 11—1.

This was the game that first formed the identification of Madrid as the team of the dictatorship and Barcelona as its victims.

Despite the difficult political situation, CF Barcelona enjoyed considerable success during the s and s. They added two more titles in and On a rainy Sunday of , the crowd left Les Corts stadium after a 2—1 win against Santander by foot, refusing to catch any trams, and surprising the Francoist authorities.

The reason was simple: Events like this made CF Barcelona represent much more than just Catalonia and many progressive Spaniards saw the club as a staunch defender of rights and freedoms.

In , they became the first club to beat Real Madrid in a European Cup play-off. However, they lost 2—3 to Benfica in the final.

The s were less successful for the club, with Real Madrid monopolising La Liga. The completion of the Camp Nou , finished in , meant the club had little money to spend on new players.

He further endeared himself when he named his son "Jordi" , after the local Catalan Saint George. Cruyff received this prestigious award a third time the first player to do so in , while he was still with Barcelona.

The name of the dormitory would later become synonymous with the youth programme of Barcelona. At the start of the —85 season, Terry Venables was hired as manager and he won La Liga with noteworthy displays by German midfielder Bernd Schuster.

At the same time, Barcelona experienced an eruption in skinheads , who often identified with a right-wing separatism. In , Johan Cruyff returned to the club, this time as manager and he assembled what would later be dubbed the "Dream Team".

It was ten years after the inception of the youth programme, La Masia, when the young players began to graduate and play for their first team.

One of the first graduates, who would later earn international acclaim, was future Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola.

Cruyff was briefly replaced by Bobby Robson , who took charge of the club for a single season in — Like Maradona, Ronaldo only stayed a short time before he left for Inter Milan in another world record transfer.

Figo had become a cult hero and was considered by Catalans to be one of their own. Van Gaal was replaced by Lorenzo Serra Ferrer who, despite an extensive investment in players in the summer of , presided over a mediocre league campaign and a first-round Champions League exit, and was dismissed late in the season.

Long-serving Barcelona deputy coach Carles Rexach was appointed as his replacement, initially on a temporary basis, and managed to at least steer the club to the last Champions League spot on the final day of the season against Valencia via an exceptional performance from Rivaldo , who completed arguably the greatest hat-trick in history with an overhead bicycle kick winner in the final minute to secure qualification.

Despite better form in La Liga and a good run to the semi-finals of the Champions League, Rexach was never viewed as a long-term solution and that summer Van Gaal returned to the club for a second spell as manager.

After the disappointment of the Gaspart era, the combination of a new young president, Joan Laporta, and a young new manager, former Dutch and Milan star Frank Rijkaard , saw the club bounce back.

In the —06 season , Barcelona repeated their league and Supercopa successes. Despite being the favourites and starting strongly, Barcelona finished the —07 season without trophies.

A historic 2—6 victory against Real Madrid followed three days later and ensured that Barcelona became —09 La Liga champions.

The elections were held on 13 June, where he got On 11 July, seven players who came through the academy participated in the final , six of which were Barcelona players whom started the match, with Iniesta scoring the winning goal against the Netherlands.

The Supercup victory brought the total number of official trophies to 73, matching the number of titles won by Real Madrid.

In the —12 season , Barcelona lost the semi-finals of the Champions League against Chelsea. Guardiola, who had been on a rolling contract and had faced criticism over his recent tactics and squad selections, [] [] announced that he would step down as manager on 30 June and be succeeded by assistant Tito Vilanova.

It was announced in summer of that Tito Vilanova, assistant manager at Barcelona, would take over from Pep Guardiola as manager. Following his appointment, Barcelona went on an incredible run that saw them hold the top spot on the league table for the entire season, recording only two losses and amassing points.

Their top scorer once again was Lionel Messi, who scored 46 goals in La Liga, including two hat-tricks. On 11 May , Barcelona were crowned as the Spanish football champions for the 22nd time, still with four games left to play.

Ultimately, Barcelona ended the season 15 points clear of rivals Real Madrid, despite losing 2—1 to them at the beginning of March.

On 19 July, it was announced that Vilanova was resigning as Barcelona manager because his throat cancer had returned, and he would be receiving treatment for the second time after a three-month medical leave in December On 22 July , Gerardo "Tata" Martino was confirmed as manager of Barcelona for the —14 season.

On 23 January , Sandro Rosell resigned as president by the admissibility of the complaint for alleged misappropriation following the transfer of Neymar.

Josep Maria Bartomeu replaced him to finish the term in Barcelona won the treble in the —15 season , winning La Liga, Copa del Rey and Champions League titles, and became the first European team to have won the treble twice.

On 20 September , Barcelona issued a statement exercising their stance on the Catalan referendum saying, "FC Barcelona, in holding the utmost respect for its diverse body of members, will continue to support the will of the majority of Catalan people, and will do so in a civil, peaceful, and exemplary way".

In addition to membership, as of [update] there are 1, officially registered fan clubs, called penyes , around the world. From the start of national competitions the clubs were seen as representatives of two rival regions in Spain: Catalonia and Castile , as well as of the two cities.

The rivalry reflects what many regard as the political and cultural tensions felt between Catalans and the Castilians , seen by one author as a re-enactment of the Spanish Civil War.

During the dictatorships of Miguel Primo de Rivera — and especially of Francisco Franco — , all regional cultures were suppressed.

All of the languages spoken in Spanish territory, except Spanish Castilian itself, were officially banned. It was less risky than joining a clandestine anti-Franco movement, and allowed them to express their dissidence.

On the other hand, Real Madrid was widely seen as the embodiment of the sovereign oppressive centralism and the fascist regime at management level and beyond: The founding message of the club was clearly anti-Barcelona, and they disapprovingly saw FC Barcelona as a team of foreigners.

In , Espanyol started a counter-petition against autonomy, which at that time had become a pertinent issue. Despite these differences in ideology, the derbi has always been more relevant to Espanyol supporters than Barcelona ones due to the difference in objectives.

In recent years the rivalry has become less political, as Espanyol translated its official name and anthem from Spanish to Catalan.

Though it is the most played local derby in the history of La Liga, it is also the most unbalanced, with Barcelona overwhelmingly dominant.

Barcelona leads the Head-To-Head record with eight wins and five defeats. The first encounter between the two clubs was in the —60 European Cup.

Unlike a limited company , it is not possible to purchase shares in the club, but only membership. He is also the record goalscorer for Barcelona in European goals and international club competitions goals , and the record league scorer with goals in La Liga.

Alongside Messi, four other players have managed to score over league goals for the club: The winner was Carles Comamala, who at the time played for the club.

The crest consists of the St George Cross in the upper-left corner with the Catalan flag beside it, and the team colours at the bottom.

The blue and red colours of the shirt were first worn in a match against Hispania in In Catalonia the common perception is that the colours were chosen by Joan Gamper and are those of his home team, FC Basel.

An away kit featuring the red and yellow stripes of the flag of Catalonia has also been used many times. The capacity was about 6,, and club officials deemed the facilities inadequate for a club with growing membership.

After the Spanish Civil War the club started attracting more members and a larger number of spectators at matches. This led to several expansion projects: After the last expansion, Les Corts could hold 60, spectators.

After the construction was complete there was no further room for expansion at Les Corts. The first stone of the future stadium was laid in place under the auspices of Governor Felipe Acedo Colunga and with the blessing of Archbishop of Barcelona Gregorio Modrego.

In , when the stadium was in need of redesign to meet UEFA criteria, the club raised money by offering supporters the opportunity to inscribe their name on the bricks for a small fee.

The idea was popular with supporters, and thousands of people paid the fee. There are also other facilities, which include: Spanish teams are limited to three players without EU citizenship.

The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player; several non-European players on the squad have dual citizenship with an EU country.

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Barcelona was involved in six competitions after completing the Treble during the last season. Barcelona won the league and the Spanish cup.

The lone goal came from Rafinha in the 89th minute of play. The game took place on 11 August at the Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena in Tbilisi , Georgia , and ended 5—4 in favour of Barcelona, with a brace from Messi and Pedro scoring the winner in extra time.

The lone goal from Messi was not enough to overturn a four-goal deficit from the first leg. Thomas Vermaelen scored the only and his first goal for the club.

The host took the lead with a goal from Fernando Torres , but goals from Neymar and substitute Messi completed the comeback and notched a 1—2 victory.

The next day, the team released a statement that the player had tear the right anterior cruciate ligament ACL and is likely to miss the rest of the season.

On 20 September, Barcelona defeated Levante at home by a 4—1 scoreline with a brace from Messi to stay undefeated in league.

The injury will keep the star player out for approximately 6—8 weeks. On 29 of September, Barcelona defeated Bayer Leverkusen in come from behind fashion with a 2—1 victory.

The visitors took the lead in the 22nd minute with a corner kick goal from defender Kyriakos Papadopoulos. Neymar scored from a second-half penalty kick [33] as Unai Emery beat Barcelona for first ever time as a manager.

He was awarded the Adidas Golden ball, given to the best player of the tournament. On 21 May, Barcelona and Nike extended their current sponsorship deal.

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